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purestorage.flasharray.purefa_endpoint – Manage VMware protocol-endpoints on Pure Storage FlashArrays
Note
This plugin is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.11.0).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.flasharray.
To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_endpoint.
New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flasharray
Synopsis
- Create, delete or eradicate the an endpoint on a Pure Storage FlashArray.
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- python >= 2.7
 - purestorage >= 1.19
 - py-pure-client >= 1.6.0
 - netaddr
 - requests
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| api_token
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
         | 
     |
| eradicate
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Define whether to eradicate the endpoint on delete or leave in trash.
         | 
     
| fa_url
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
         | 
     |
| hgroup
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        name of hostgroup to attach endpoint to
         | 
     |
| host
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        name of host to attach endpoint to
         | 
     |
| name
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        The name of the endpoint.
         | 
     |
| rename
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        Value to rename the specified endpoint to.
        
       
        Rename only applies to the container the current endpoint is in.
         | 
     |
| state
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Define whether the endpoint should exist or not.
         | 
     
Notes
Note
- This module requires the 
purestorageandpy-pure-clientPython libraries - Additional Python librarues may be required for specific modules.
 - You must set 
PUREFA_URLandPUREFA_APIenvironment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly 
Examples
- name: Create new endpoint named foo
  purefa_endpoint:
    name: test-endpoint
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: present
- name: Delete and eradicate endpoint named foo
  purefa_endpoint:
    name: foo
    eradicate: yes
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent
- name: Rename endpoint foor to bar
  purefa_endpoint:
    name: foo
    rename: bar
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
  Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| volume
        
        dictionary
         | 
      success | 
        
        A dictionary describing the changed volume. Only some attributes below will be returned with various actions.
          | 
     |
| created
        
        string
         | 
      success | 
        
        Volume creation time
         Sample:
        
       
        2019-03-13T22:49:24Z
         | 
     |
| name
        
        string
         | 
      success | 
        
        Volume name
          | 
     |
| serial
        
        string
         | 
      success | 
        
        Volume serial number
         Sample:
        
       
        361019ECACE43D83000120A4
         | 
     |
| source
        
        string
         | 
      success | 
        
        Volume name of source volume used for volume copy
          | 
     |
Authors
- Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley) <pure-ansible-team@purestorage.com>
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/purestorage/flasharray/purefa_endpoint_module.html